Saturday is the last day of the six day foundation course. We’ll be in a classroom from 9am-3:30pm. Studying constitutional law. Jealous?
We spent the last two days on real property and evidence. Apparently, students perform the worst on these two subjects. I answered 28 of 50 real property questions correctly on Thursday morning. This morning, I answered 14 of 50 evidence questions correctly (evidently, applying what I’ve learned from watching Law&Order over the years just won’t cut it). So far I have been successfully keeping the panic at arms length in the interest of remaining productive. Hope I can keep that up because–seriously–14 out of 50 is UGLY.
PMBR is telling us that the average student gets half of the questions correct during these 50 question quizzes. It shouldn’t be surprising that I’m behind the pack in evidence, a subject I haven’t studied before. But I had hoped I would do better, particularly in contracts and real property. These low scores should provide more than enough motivation to keep my nose in a book for the next few weeks.
Have I learned anything by taking the 6-day foundation course? With the exception of evidence, the experience has been more like drudging legal fundamentals up from the murky lake bottom that is my recollection of 1L subjects. There’s not as much new substantive law as I would have expected (so far, that is).
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